Crepuscular and nocturnal illumination and its effects on color perception by the nocturnal hawkmoth Deilephila elpenor

S Johnsen, A Kelber, E Warrant… - Journal of …, 2006 - journals.biologists.com
nocturnal insect and vertebrate species have true color vision under nocturnal illumination.
… of twilight and nocturnal illumination, due to the presence or absence of the moon,artificial …

Colour vision in nocturnal insects

E Warrant, H Somanathan - … Transactions of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… Using the well-studied Deilephila elpenor, we describe the visual light environment at night,
… colour vision for nocturnal insects and its usefulness in discriminating night-opening flowers…

Colour vision in diurnal and nocturnal hawkmoths

A Kelber, A Balkenius, EJ Warrant - Integrative and Comparative …, 2003 - academic.oup.com
… We used it to study moths of Deilephila elpenor, Hyles lineata and Hyles gallii. Moths were
… of Deilephila elpenor, under the lowest light intensity used in the experiments, in Fig. 4. A …

Scotopic colour vision in nocturnal hawkmoths

A Kelber, A Balkenius, EJ Warrant - Nature, 2002 - nature.com
night as it is during the day. Here we show, through behavioural experiments, that the nocturnal
hawkmoth Deilephila elpenornight, and that their colour vision works at much lower light

Nocturnal colour vision–not as rare as we might think

A Kelber, LSV Roth - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2006 - journals.biologists.com
Nocturnal hawkmoths (Deilephila elpenor, Hyles lineata and H. gallii) can still see colour at
… at night, to find food,mates, or their homes. At nocturnal light levels, the quantal nature of light

Colour constancy in diurnal and nocturnal hawkmoths

A Balkenius, A Kelber - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2004 - journals.biologists.com
Diurnal and nocturnal hawkmoths have been shown to use … that the nocturnal hawkmoth
Deilephila elpenor and the diurnal … under white and blue illumination and with five yellowish …

Wide-field motion tuning in nocturnal hawkmoths

JC Theobald, EJ Warrant… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… and nocturnal vision, this paper compares wide-field motion-detecting neurons in three
hawkmoths: the nocturnal hoverer Deilephila elpenor, … elpenor at the same light levels; yet in the …

The relative importance of olfaction and vision in a diurnal and a nocturnal hawkmoth

A Balkenius, W Rosén, A Kelber - Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 2006 - Springer
… a diurnal and a nocturnal hawkmoth that belonged to the same subfamily (Macroglossinae).
Both nocturnal hawkmoth Deilephila elpenor and the diurnalelpenor, the light intensity was …

Nocturnal bees learn landmark colours in starlight

H Somanathan, RM Borges, EJ Warrant, A Kelber - Current Biology, 2008 - cell.com
… object discrimination at night because crepuscular shifts in illumination colour [ … nocturnal
illumination and its effect on colour perception by the nocturnal hawkmoth Deilephila elpenor. …

Limits of colour vision in dim light

A Kelber, O Lind - Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
… For the nocturnal elephant hawkmoth Deilephila elpenor, we have determined a
sensitivity of S w = 441 μm 2 sr (see Table 1), and even the diurnal hummingbird hawkmoth …